Drawing on her extensive experience in auditing sites across many different industries and jurisdictions our Expert Services Manager, Sarah Toussaint, provides her key tips for making EHS compliance audits a success. ...

Background While there has been significant progress in developing accounting methods that integrate environmental considerations into the decision making process, conventional accounting practices generally lean toward the near side of complexity. Many organizations do not include the cost of activities such as EH&S monitoring as cost to production, but rather tend to bury these costs into ...

Untitled Document It's no secret environmental health and safety (EH&S) managers are faced with the challenge of accomplishing more with less. In the competitive and highly regulated utility industry, ...

Enhesa’s webinar held on May 19 and 21 2011, explored the intricate and complex international Environmental, Health & Safety permitting process. Enhesa experts, Cecile Baudon and Eduardo Molina brought the topic to light by sharing the varying methods of permitting globally. The webinar offered practical and usable information on how to: identify when a permit becomes ...

On 18 January 2012, President Obama rejected the proposed plans for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a project which has drawn much debate throughout the United States and Canada. Although the debate concerning the Keystone XL hinged largely on political divides, the denial of the project will likely drive state regulation of environmental, health, and safety issues concerning pipelines. ...

Background Shell Oil is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies with around 102,000 employees in more than 100 countries and territories. Shell continually places a strong emphasis on environmental regulatory compliance, and the Company is committed to managing its environmental impact as it strives to meet the world’s growing energy needs. ...

Two strategies for managing chemical compliance This article outlines strategies and tactics for efficiently and effectively managing chemicals, while achieving EHS regulatory compliance. Since OHSA and the EPA were created in the 1970s, regulations have changed the way that chemicals and other hazardous materials are managed and introduced cradle-to-grave liability for chemicals and hazardous ...

Company 'raises the bar' with system that enables auditors to focus on individual site requirements in quest for continual improvement. Background in Brief You’ll find many of the company’s products on just about every airplane in production*. And you’ll find a dauntingly wide range of environmental, health and safety audit requirements across the company’s roughly 100 ...

Untitled Document In a competitive and highly regulated utility industry, environmental health and safety (EH&S) professionals are asked to do more, efficiently, with reduced staffs. In the past few years, ...

It’s the beginning of the calendar year, a time when many environmental professionals begin to gather their 2011 environmental data to generate reports that your regulatory agencies require. How much fuel did your stationary combustion sources burn in the past year? How many times was a certain condition exceeded in the past quarter? Were there any accidental releases this year? If so, were ...

AbstractUrban environmental policy cannot escape the dictates of global environmental requirements as stipulated by the principles of Stockholm Conference, Rio-Summit, and the Johannesburg Summit that includes multilateral environmental agreements. The National Museum of Kenya (NMK) is a public, educational, scientific and heritage management institution established in 1909. It has undergone ...

During the past few years, the global regulatory landscape has changed with the implementation of the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). GHS has become an essential component of corporate account globalization plans, with its effect felt throughout the global supply chain. Many countries have implemented GHS — but not always ...

Background Headquartered in Westborough, MA, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. is a leading operator of membership warehouse club stores in the Eastern United States. The Company currently operates over 200 clubs in 15 states from Maine to Florida and employs more than 25,000 team members. Challenges As a large ...

While it’s too soon to know exactly how companies will respond to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new conflict minerals reporting requirement, experts say this first year was an eye-opening lesson in just how challenging it is to track down quality data across a global supply chain. “When you look at it from a process standpoint, it’s not a very complicated ...

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